Transcript for Pro-Russian Armed Rebels Greet Journalists at Crash Site

The first journalists arriving at the scene of the crash were met by pro Russian armed rebels. Who were controlling the area and searching for bodies in fact ABC's freelance reporter John Wendell got a firsthand look at the vast debris field. They're they're walking through these fields and it's a graphs and occasionally you'll catch. Part of the fuselage or one of the wheels. I was walking along in somebody's flashlights -- upon some children's playing cards that -- kind of scattered. We found part of that -- fuselage. Here. There is a body next to it. You know it's it's a very grim scene that we're seeing here.

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